Tracing thymic output in older individuals

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 497-503

  Mitchell, W A ^a,b   Lang, P O ^b   Aspinall, R ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Mortality; Thymic output; Thymus TREC; TREC assay

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS;

AGED; AGING; ANTIGENS, CD3; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 77955720671     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2010.04209.x     Document Type: Article

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